Description
Recommended crops: Rice, Wheat, Maize, Barley, Ragi, other minor millets, fodder grass, sugar cane, Rubber, tea, coffee, coconut, cardamom, pepper, cotton, grapes, turmeric, ginger, banana, vegetables, fruit plants, flowering plants, vanilla, etc.
Methods of application: Seed treatment: Mix 100ml. Azospirillum with 1000ml of cleaning water, mix 20-30 kg. seeds in the solution by gentle agitation. Dry the seeds in shade for 30 min. before sowing.
Seedling Dip: Mix 100ml. Azospirillum in 20 Litres of water. Dip the root system of seedling for 20 min. in the solution before transplanting.
Soil Application: Mix 5 ml. of Azospirillum with 1 kg. organic manure and apply at the base. For main field/nursery application,(1 acre) mix 1 litre of Azospirillum with 200kg. organic manure and broadcast when the soil is just wet. For potted plants also Azospirillum is very effective.
Mode of Action:
It is an associative N-fixing bacterium which colonize on the root surface as well as internal cortical tissues of the roots.
Benefits of Azospirillum:
Better crop growth and seedling establishment.
Helps on fix 15-20kg. N/ acre/ year.
Increases crop yield by 15-20%
Helps to reduce N. fertilizer by 20-30%
Produces significant quantities of growth hormones like gibberellins, cytokinins Indole Acetic Acid (IAA) etc.
Additional information
Weight | 100 g |
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